Every year, I pick the ten albums that I listened to the most (not counting compilations), as recorded on the laptop where I listen to most of my music. (So these counts don’t include listening in the car or the kitchen, or on my phone.) I limit the selection to no more than one album per artist, and skip albums that have featured in previous years. Then from each of those ten objectively selected albums, I subjectively pick one song that I feel is representative.
Here are the lists, with comments on the albums and selected tracks:
- What I’ve been listening to in 2009
- What I’ve been listening to in 2010
- What I’ve been listening to in 2011
- What I’ve been listening to in 2012
- What I’ve been listening to in 2013
- What I’ve been listening to in 2014
- What I’ve been listening to in 2015
- What I’ve been listening to in 2016
- What I’ve been listening to in 2017
- What I’ve been listening to in 2018
- What I’ve been listening to in 2019
- What I’ve been listening to in 2020
- What I’ve been listening to in 2021